{"title":"Nic Knuckles","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"big-scream-in-a-small-town-the-nic-knuckles-collection-paperback","title":"Big Scream in a Small Town: The Nic Knuckles Collection - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York City private eye Nic Knuckles gets the call all private investigators live for: a mysterious client with money to burn who needs answers and needs them now. The job is simple. Fly to Kleinstadt, Indiana, and determine whether fifteen years ago, teenage murder victim Mindy Bauerman got justice, or if her classmate, Timmy Hanlon, had been wrongly convicted and wasting away in prison. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNic's analytic skills lack the rigor of a Sherlock Holmes, as memories of past romantic failures derail his thinking. But they all pale in comparison to the long-running emotional issues Nic has with his mother. He may not have a silky-smooth interrogation style, and more than one Nature documentary has informed his decision-making, but Nic's saving grace is a relentless drive to solve criminal mysteries and a soft spot for forgotten victims and their loved ones. As Nic himself would say, \"I'm a big city private eye with a boatload of heartbreak, traversing the universe in pursuit of justice for the little guy.\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374377402591,"sku":"9781685125226","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/hNkalHLOfk9781685125226.webp?v=1789178857"},{"product_id":"big-scream-in-a-wee-village-the-nic-knuckles-collection-paperback","title":"Big Scream in a Wee Village: The Nic Knuckles Collection - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The family was stunned,\" Butterfield said, \"when not more than a few months after she'd left home for England, Gloria wrote to announce she'd fallen in love with a rich man's son.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI felt my eyebrows shimmy up my forehead. Nic Knuckles knew what it was like to fall in love with someone with more money, greater status, and a father who called her Princess. It was amazing at first, then six months later, when her daddy lost his job, went broke, and asked you to pay his gambling debt, it all went to hell. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Gloria planned to convince this rich boyfriend to marry her and then she'd become a member of the British aristocracy. It was crazy.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I get the feeling this love affair thing didn't work out,\" I said. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe skin on Butterfield's face took on a shimmer of emotion. \"No,\" she whispered, raising the back of her left hand to dab her eye. \"It didn't work out at all. After that, there was no more written correspondence, no phone calls, nothing. It was as if Gloria had fallen off the face of the earth.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Ade resides in Northern Virginia, and writes short stories and novels full of mystery or humor, or both. Ade's latest novel, Big Scream in a Wee Village is the second in the Nic Knuckles Collection. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51375134769375,"sku":"9798898200039","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/moQEx1Pj7B9798898200039.webp?v=1789193110"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/nic-knuckles.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}